On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 09:50:23AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Osamu Aoki <os...@debian.org> writes: > > On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 04:43:28PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: ... > > I usually add package dependency to "locales-all|locales". Then > > pbuilder nor any build environment should not fail. > > The package itself doesn't depend on locales in this case, though.
I see. > The problem is that Lintian depends on locales, but it doesn't just depend > on the locales package. I see. > Having locales installed doesn't help. Lintian specifically depends > on having a UTF-8 locale available. So easiest solution is to make Lintian depend on "locales-all" instead of "locales". Ubuntu folks need to patch this back to "locales". To some extent it is excessive dependency, though. > The best solution is to do something that ensures a C.UTF-8 locale is > always available. This would also help other problems in Debian. I vaguely remember d-i folks talked about using something like this for d-i. > Absent that, we're considering adding some sort of ugly hack to Lintian to > force the locales package to generate a UTF-8 locale if one isn't already > available. Unfortunately, there's no straightforward way to do that in > Debian without doing things that are kind of questionable. If you do this as others replied, I guess it works and is the best. But as for C.UTF-8, with some googling, I found udeb for C.UTF-8: http://packages.debian.org/sid/installation-locale This may help inplimenting this for lintian. Osamu PS: Do not ask me what is the difference between en_US.UTF-8 and C.UTF-8. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
